Re: no video

First off, are you sure you have flash installed? If this isn't the issue, could you possibly elaborate on what you mean by "wont play video on you tube etc [sic]"

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Re: no video

thanks for reply yes i sort of understand what flash is but am not sure how to extract or run the program I was not certain of which version of flash i needed. I have downloaded a flash file onto the laptop. I am only really wanting the laptop set up to browse the web.everything I need seems to be working, I can browse the web but not play any video. I've checked the graphic card, a sis one and appear to have the correct driver installed. When I get to a web page containing any video there is a blank space in the page

Re: no video

restarted but the problem not resolved, is it possilble that too many video packages have been installed, a friend helping me recently seemed to installing a great many packages from repositries? thanks for the help

Re: no video

getting flash video to work in a browser should be trivial - it should even work ootb on a new #! install.so the next obvious question is ...what did your friend do to your system?i guess it's got something to do with your sis graphics?

(others: could this affect how flash works? honestly i don't think so. could it have to do with hardware accel?)

zo:go to iceweasel preferences, advanced tab, and change the state of "Use hardware acceleration when available".worth a shot.

Re: no video

go to iceweasel preferences, advanced tab, and change the state of "Use hardware acceleration when available".

I second this. You also might want to check under Iceweasel >> Add-ons >> Plugins if the Flash-Plugin is set to "Always activate" or something like "Ask to activate".

Another shot in the dark: Do you have any Add-on installed that forces HTML5 on Youtube? Sometimes they don't work correctly. However, if you don't have something like this installed, you could give it a try and see, if HTML5 replay works. Check this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … 5/?src=api (you might have to change the settings in order to make it work properly).

Edit: spelling

Edit 2: Have you tried Youtube (or different video websites) with a different browser?

Last edited by Garrett (2014-05-07 12:20:08)

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Re: no video

partial sucess loaded chrome browser and Youtube video playback sort of worked, a bit of a judder. BBC iplayer not working asking for Shockwave plugin. Went to adobe and got four linux choices, YUM for linux, tar.gz, .rpm and APT for ubunto. Which one do you think I need?

Re: no video

zo wrote:

partial sucess loaded chrome browser and Youtube video playback sort of worked, a bit of a judder. BBC iplayer not working asking for Shockwave plugin. Went to adobe and got four linux choices, YUM for linux, tar.gz, .rpm and APT for ubunto. Which one do you think I need?

thanks Zo

yum and rpm aren't debian, ubuntu isn't debian, so I reckon you need the tar.gz archive. There is probably a README in it, so I suggest you do (Though there is a shockwave browser plugin in the repos)